Early stage memory impairment, visual hallucinations, and myoclonus combined with temporal lobe atrophy predict Alzheimer's disease pathology in corticobasal syndrome.
Na-Yeon JungJae-Hyeok LeeYoung Min LeeJin-Hong ShinMyung-Jun ShinMyung Jun LeeKyoungjune PakChungsu HwangJae Woo AhnSuk SungKyung-Un ChoiGi Yeong HuhEun-Joo KimPublished in: Neurocase (2018)
Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is a typical phenotype of corticobasal degeneration (CBD). However, autopsy series have shown that many CBS cases emerge from various types of non-CBD pathology. We report a 73-year-old Korean man who was clinically diagnosed with CBS whose underlying pathology was Alzheimer's disease (AD) at autopsy (CBS-AD). This case suggests that early developing memory impairment and myoclonus, severe temporoparietal atrophy, and visual hallucinations may support a more specific prediction of CBS-AD.